Thank you. Darren
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 05:46 pm, RW wrote: > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 15:24, backdoc wrote: > > I have a laptop partitioned up into a mixture of Windows and Linux > > partitions. I was thinking about wiping the Ubuntu partition and putting > > FreeBSD 5.4 in its place. However, there are a couple of concerns that I > > have before doing this. > > > > 1) Everything except for the NTFS partition is inside of an extended > > partition. > > > > If I delete the Ubuntu partition, will FreeBSD install in an extended > > partition? > > No, you may be able to resize it though. You are allowed 4 primary > partions, one of which may be an extended partition. FreeBSD install on a > single primary partion and places all it's native partions inside it > without it counting as the one extended partition. > > > 2) I use one Linux partition to keep all regular user documents that > > Ubuntu and Gentoo share (eg. photos, OpenOffice documents and etc.) > > > > Does FreeBSD fully support ext3 writing? > > No, but ext3 is compatible with ext2 provided that fsck understands ext3 > journals, which I believe is the case with FreeBSD. > > > Any drawbacks to sharing an ext3 > > partition between Gentoo and FreeBSD? > > Since you'll be using it as ext2 (probably with synchronous writes) writing > may be slow under FreeBSD. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
